LETTER: Retired Army sergeant opposes changes to immigration policy

I would like to express my great displeasure with the president and Congress for their recent attempts to make illegal aliens legal. The crossing of our borders is a crime, it doesn't matter how long ago the crime occurred or how crime-free the criminal has been since crossing the border. To make illegals legal because they have been here for some amount of time and kept their noses clean is like telling a murderer that society will forgive and forget his crime 40 years later because he led a good, honest life after the crime.

Then there is our already strained and ready-for-collapse financial system. Once illegals are made legal the welfare and unemployment pay is going through the roof. I estimate an 8-10 percent jump in unemployment and another 500,000 going on welfare.

I am a retired Army sergeant on disability. The cut backs federal leaders are thinking about jeopardizes my livelihood. Please, let's screw our heads on straight. Don't make illegals legal and cause the collapse of our financial system and a return of recession. And do not make cuts in retirement benefits or Social Security.

If these actions continue the people of the United States ( the legal ones ) should consider impeachment proceedings against those we elected to safeguard our great nation, not ruin it. We put you into office, and we can take you out of office. This is in no means a threat but a promise from the American people, or at least a lot of us in Tennessee.

James E. Massey

Woodlawn 37191

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LETTER: Retired Army sergeant opposes changes to immigration policy

I would like to express my great displeasure with the president and Congress for their recent attempts to make illegal aliens legal.